Accessing other users’ pictures for admin purposes

As administrator, shouldn’t I be able to access other users’ photos if I need to?
I would also like to use some of those pictures in a site-wide slideshow, but most of the image URLs don’t work.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

In BP-Album+, the administrator has “superuser” privileges. So when an admin visits a user’s profile, they have the same abilities that user would have. You can rename, mode, delete, and edit files just as if you were that user. Also, you have a special “restrict to admin” privacy setting for images, so if you set an image to that level, 1) admins can see it, 2) it is invisible to all other users including the owner, and 3) It cannot be uploaded again.

BP-Media 0.1.9 has an entire hierarchy of different roles that allow precise control over what staff and administrators can do.